Joshua 9

¹And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 34:6Exod 3:17Exod 23:23Josh 3:10Deut 3:25Deut 4:49Deut 7:1Exod 23:31Exod 34:11Gen 15:18-21

²That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 20:1-30Acts 4:26-28Isa 54:15Isa 8:12Isa 8:9-10Joel 3:9-13Prov 11:21Ps 2:1-2Ps 83:2-8Rev 16:14

³And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 10:2Josh 9:172 Sam 21:1-2Josh 6:1-27Josh 8:1-35

⁴They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 16:8Luke 5:37-38Mark 2:22Matt 10:161 Kgs 20:31-33Gen 34:13Matt 9:17Ps 119:83

⁵And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 15:22Deut 29:5Deut 33:25Josh 9:13

⁶And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 5:102 Kgs 20:141 Kgs 8:41Deut 20:11-15Josh 10:43Josh 9:9

⁷And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 11:19Judg 2:2Deut 20:16Deut 7:2-3Exod 23:31-33Exod 3:8Exod 34:12Gen 10:17Gen 34:2Josh 9:1

⁸And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 10:5Deut 20:11Josh 9:111 Kgs 9:20-21Gen 9:25-26Josh 9:23Josh 9:25Josh 9:27

⁹And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 20:15Josh 9:24Isa 55:5Josh 2:9-101 Kgs 8:412 Chr 6:32-33Exod 15:14Exod 9:16Isa 66:19Neh 9:5

¹⁰And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 1:4Deut 2:30-3:7Josh 12:4Num 21:24-351 Chr 6:71

¹¹Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:17Josh 9:8Gen 43:12Josh 1:11Luke 9:3Matt 10:9-10

¹²This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 9:4-5

¹³And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁴And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 3:5-6Num 27:211 Chr 10:13-142 Sam 5:191 Sam 23:9-121 Sam 30:7-8Ezra 8:21Isa 30:1-2Judg 1:1Judg 20:28

¹⁵And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 21:2Deut 20:10-11Josh 11:19Josh 6:22-25Exod 23:32Jer 18:7-8Josh 2:12-19

¹⁶And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 12:19

¹⁷And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath–jearim. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezra 2:25Josh 18:25-281 Chr 13:5-61 Chr 21:291 Sam 7:12 Chr 1:3-4Josh 10:2Josh 15:60Josh 15:9Josh 18:14

¹⁸And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 15:42 Sam 21:7Eccl 5:2Eccl 5:6Eccl 9:2

¹⁹But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 8:2Eccl 9:2Jer 4:2Josh 9:20

²⁰This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 17:12-21Mal 3:5Prov 20:251 Tim 1:102 Chr 36:132 Sam 21:1-6Rom 1:31Zech 5:3-4

²¹And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 29:11Josh 9:23Josh 9:272 Chr 2:17-18Josh 9:15

²²And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 9:6Josh 9:16Gen 27:35-36Gen 27:41-45Gen 29:25Gen 3:13-14Josh 9:9-102 Cor 11:3

²³Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 9:21Gen 9:25-26Josh 9:27Lev 27:28-29

²⁴And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 20:15-17Deut 7:1-2Exod 23:31-33Matt 10:28Num 33:55-56Deut 7:23-24Exod 15:14-16Job 2:4Josh 9:9Num 33:51-52

²⁵And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 16:6Jer 26:14Judg 10:151 Sam 3:182 Sam 24:14Isa 47:6Jer 38:5Judg 8:15Matt 11:26

²⁶And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁷And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:5